MSNBC’s Katy Tur understands perspective and statistics about as well as she understands politics — which is to say, not at all.

The cable news host scored a viral hit on social media this week when she noted, presumably with a furrowed brow and grim look on her face, that people in the United States are dying of COVID-19 even as President Trump holds emergency White House press briefings.

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